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Recently we’ve enjoyed good news… Yesterday the church parent and toddler group re-started. All went really well. Messages of gratitude… ‘Just wanted to say a huge thank you! It was so wonderful to see you all yesterday. E and A had such a good time.  It was so good to feel that a little normalityContinue reading “The Margin of Mystery”

There are two ways to cross Lake Lothing in Lowestoft: either by the Bascule Bridge to the east of the town, or the Mutford Lock Bridge to the west. After many years of discussion, promises and good intentions a third crossing is finally being built. The Gull Wing Bridge is due to be completed andContinue reading “The Third Crossing”

A man in a disabled buggy was approaching me along the coastal path. A black dog walked beside him. He kept whistling instructions to the dog. The whistling didn’t sound right… As he drew closer I saw a grey parrot on the front of his buggy whistling! I liked the idea of the parrot, notContinue reading “Whistled Instructions?”

We walked beside the sea yesterday afternoon. There was the usual assortment of seagulls, including youngsters in their juvenile feathers. One comical-looking herring gull caught our attention. He was a beautiful glossy grey and white adult – with a juvenile brown fluffy head. Not quite grown up. A young head on a mature body. TheContinue reading “Seagull, Emma, Jacob and Maturity”

Consider the lilies of the field,How they grow, how they grow.Consider the birds in the sky,How they fly, how they fly. Sometimes life seems so complicated. World problems – pandemics, terrorism, earthquakes, hurricanes, war, injustice… apparently no solutions. And personally… damaged relationships, broken promises, family problems, insoluble disappointments, incurable illness… more complications. He clothes theContinue reading “Consider the Lilies”

George Bennett has come on holiday to Great Yarmouth each year for the last 75 years. He first came in 1946. The war had just ended. There were de-mining operations across Yarmouth. Rationing was still in force. He recalled his 1966 honeymoon in Yarmouth… the year that there was a swarm of poisonous jelly fishContinue reading “George Bennett…Justin Welby”

Last night I watched ‘To Sir With Love’. Again. It addresses the social and racial issues of a 1960’s tough inner city school… Mark Thackeray (Sydney Poitier) takes on a teaching appointment in the East End of London… Most of Thackeray’s students have been rejected by other schools; their disruptive behaviour drove the last teacherContinue reading “To Sir With Love”

We’ve been listening to the Prime Minister’s announcements on funding increases for the NHS and social care sector and how this increase will be paid for… Stories have been told of families paying hundreds of thousands of pounds on the care required for elderly relatives… Local children with rare illnesses get much deserved sympathy. WeContinue reading “Best before… Sell-by Date”

Musing… The ‘hall of mirrors’ at the funfair… curved mirrors that give a humorous, scary or flattering image – depending on which of my bits were enlarged, diminished or distorted… Musing… the old children’s rhyme: There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;Continue reading “The Hall Of Mirrors”

Yesterday I was musing on the grand prix, re-tyring and pit stops… Pit: ‘A hole in the ground’. I remember Bible stories: Joseph and Jeremiah thrown into a pit and left abandoned. Animals used to fight in pits… Dogs trained to fight in pits were pit-bull terriers; cock-fighting took place in pits – hence theContinue reading “The Deep Dark Pit…”